A place so attractive, even the Pulled swiftly over sandbars, setting boats a bobbing, under barnacle-encrusted posts of wooden wharves, advancing a foot every seven seconds, like clockwork, the sea tumbles against the chalky. red cliffs. Newfoundland. Nova Scotia. New Brunswick. And Prince Edward Island, a magical place that brought the fabled Anne of Green Gables to life. '1've always heard Prince Edward Island is the prettiest place in the world and I used to imagine I was living here, but never really expected I would" "It s the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagtnation: t Canada's seaboard provinces have long been tide (pun intended) by the forces of the AtlantIc, shap- ing land and lore alike. Norse sagas tell of Leif the Lucky and other Viking visitors who were the first from the Old World to take to this region. Later, Captain Kidd found it the perfect hideaway to stash his loot. (No, we haven't spotted the "X" yet.) And it's here the French built "" ..... l \ I 1\ " Louisbourg, a fortress so large - and expensive - that Louis XIV himself complained, "I should be able to sée it from here:' Though the power- ful British soon caught wind and, flintlock muskets flailing, corps-a- corps, were determined to bid Louis' good chaps adieu. By George, we've come a long wa Oh certainly, the Viking sod houses are still nestled in th grassy knolls of Newfoundland And the fortresses remain 0 guard, but happily the garrison, sailors an .... townsfolk (living just as they wer. are leagues mor receptIve. Ferry among fjords. whales and great flocks of puffins, withi a patchwork quilt of seaside communItIes.